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Object description

Unidentified pattern Australian machete

Physical description

Hilt form: slab-sided two-piece wooden grips secured to tang by three flush-ground steel rivets. The pommel, provide with a hole for the leather wrist strap, is rounded and vestigially beaked.
Blade form: identical to WEA 752, broad swell-point blade, straight edged with gently curved back.
The weapon on is fitted with a leather wrist strap, blade is coated with turquoise lacquer.
Scabbard: broad scabbard formed from a folded length of dark green canvas secured by seven rivets. The edges are reinforced with strips of coarse white canvas and a strip of coarse green canvas is inserted where the two edges meet, protecting the scabbard from the blade edge. The opening is reinforced by a brass mouthpiece which is crimped onto the body and secured by a rivet. Sewn to the back of the scabbard are a hilt retention strap and a belt loop.

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This style of machete, officially known as the 'Matchet, 15-inch Blade (Aust)' was standard issue in the Australian Army during the Second World War and for many years thereafter.
This example was made by Gregory Steel Products of Melbourne.